CIHT: New Guidance to ‘Clean-Up’ UK Streets Launched
The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) are leading the way in the delivery of a new guidance document for practitioners.
This document features a call for the de-cluttering of UK streets through the removal of unnecessary signs whilst ensuring that what is really required is left in place.
Geoff Allister CIHT President said:
“The recent focus in the media on the unnecessary and over supply of street furniture and traffic signs is in line with CIHT views that the correct level of improvements need to be made to the street environment.”
“CIHT’s new guidance ‘Manual for Streets 2’ provides highways and transportation professionals with the updated guidance they need. An example of this is in calling for the removal of unnecessary signs in line with the principles outlined in ‘Manual for Streets 2′. This can be carried out during routine street maintenance to reduce costs.’
“CIHT are in a position to assist with the delivery of this ‘uncluttered future’ and we believe that the launch of Manual for Streets 2 will provide local authorities and all those who carry out maintenance and or improvements to the streets of the UK would benefit from the adopting of this guidance.”
The guidance is being launched at a series of events this autumn. The first event was held today at the Thistle Hotel, Barbican, London. The conference featured a keynote address by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport Norman Baker MP.
Regional and Local Transport Minister Norman Baker said:
“The design of our streets and roads has a huge impact on our environment and quality of life. That is why we wrote to councils last month asking them to look at how unnecessary street clutter could be cut and why I am delighted to be launching this new guidance today.
“It is vital that good advice is available if we are to improve the design of our streets in the long term and make sure that unsightly clutter is kept to a minimum.
“Manual for Streets 2 provides practical guidance on street design and is the result of a successful collaboration between industry experts and the Department for Transport. I congratulate all those involved in the project and hope that this new guidance will help councils create better designed streets and roads of which local communities can be proud.”
The original Manual for Streets (Mfs) was published by the Department for Transport in 2007. This award-winning document provided guidance for practitioners involved in the planning, design, provision and approval of new residential streets, and modifications to existing ones. Mfs2 gives guidance on how these Mfs principles can be extended to apply to busier streets as well as residential areas. At its core is the premise that roads and streets should be designed to deliver traffic flows appropriate to the balance between a route’s place and function.
NOTES TO EDITORS
Manual for Streets 2 (Mfs2)
Mfs2 has been delivered by a project team led by the Managing Editors Alan Young and Phil Jones. This project team received support and valuable input from the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT), the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), the Department for Transport and the Homes and Communities Agency.
For more information on the original Manual for Streets document, please visit the Department for Transport via this link
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For more information please contact Daniel Isichei, Director of Communications, CIHT on t: +44 (0) 20 7336 1567 m: 07912122573 e: Daniel.Isichei@ciht.org.uk
Regards
Daniel Isichei
Director of Communications
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